"A Prayer for Help"

Have no confidence in the flesh! That's the lesson we must learn, time and time again; until ultimately we get it right, and as soon as we do, it will be time to learn it again! There seems to be somewhat of a pattern here, where after each Psalm of great victory or awakening to the power of God, there follows a Psalm that cries out for help; could this have anything to do with the fact that God's strength is made perfect in our weakness? Come to think about it, with every revelation of God's power to work in and through our lives, shouldn't we be crying out for Him to do that which was just revealed? I think we have confidence and most of the time we might have courage, but generally, we lack the persistence to obtain perfection; it's just not who we are, and as soon as we see ourselves achieving holiness, we do the thing that keeps us on our knees, we fail!!! It might not be something morally wrong, like adultery, or drunkenness, or any other sins that are rooted in desire or lust; but there is another that we fail, in that we fail to let God's love live in us! A sudden outburst of anger; a mean and unloving word spoken in a fit of rage; things that are hard to take back, and although they might be forgiven, they are hardly forgotten. As you might have guessed by now, the title above Psalm 28 in my Bible reads, "A Prayer for Help"; something that is actually quite fitting after having just finished with waiting on the Lord; because we need help; we cannot do this on our own, nor does God expect us to even try!!! As with the words of Paul that I closed with yesterday, our life is now hid in Christ; therefore, He is the source of all that we do, and when we find ourselves failing, it is either because we have tried to move in our own strength, or that we have placed confidence in ourselves; either way, it's the dead flesh trying to come back to life, and trying to prove it is still alive, primarily with a little help from the enemy of our souls. Just as he told Eve, "Thou shalt not surely die", he tells us now, You will not completely die, for your flesh lives on. Trying to bring this flesh into a right relationship with God does not work!!! This flesh will not see glory, nor is it meant to, because it is unholy and must be transformed before entering into the kingdom of God..."Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptable, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." (1 Corinthians 15:50-53)